Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1920 — WOOD FAR AHEAD IN MINNESOTA PRIMARY [ARTICLE]

WOOD FAR AHEAD IN MINNESOTA PRIMARY

St. Paul, Minn., March 15. —Incomplete returns on tonight’s republican presidential preference primary gave heavy pluralities to General Leonard Wood and showed Senator Hiram W. Johnson and Gov. Frjrfik O. Lowden running closely for the secondary vote. Because of -the 'brief time given for voting and unfavorable^weafßerTh 7 some sections, voting was comparatively light. - Although Wood ran second to Johnson in some of the Minneapolis and St. Paul precincts, the formet continued to increase his statewide margin, on the face of returns from more than 100 scattering precincts. The. total on these was Wood, 1,859; Johnson, 899; Hoover, 575; Lowden, 517. Hoover received numerous “sticker” votes in Twin Cities precincts.